"Editing" the autofill pref takes you to your card in the address book where I have different phone numbers, etc. There are check boxes against these, presumably to indicate whether they get displayed in autofill (though could be wriong here). Even with the phone number I want as the only one checked, a different number is autofilled.

My Safari has an option in Reset Safari (on Safari menu) to remove other autofill form text. Try this. If it does not work delete the Form Values item in your Safari Folder in the Library in your home folder.

In Safari>preferences>autofill the "?" at the bottom will explain what is happening.

Editing" the autofill pref takes you to your card in the address book where I have different phone numbers, etc. There are check boxes against these, presumably to indicate whether they get displayed in autofill (though could be wriong here). Even with the phone number I want as the only one checked, a different number is autofilled.

"Check boxes." What check boxes are you seeing? My Address Book view has no such boxes.....

As I recall (I have not looked at it recently) autofill uses the first telephone number from address book.

Thanks for getting in touch. Address book doesn't have check boxes next to items in the card when viewed normally. However, when you click the Edit button in Safari autofill prefs it opens up Address book at the card and it does then have check boxes. It seems reasonable to hink that these are something o do with he information you want autofilled, right?

I already thought about the first entry and rejigged the info such as the required number was at the top - no joy.

In frustration, I've deleted the card and created a new one with only the info I want entered and that seems to have worked.

Thank you! After weeks of trying to figure out how the blasted thing got changed from my info to my daughter's, I can now stop retyping all my data into forms. Of course, I have finished most of my Christmas shopping, but still...

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